BILLY JOEL COLLECTION STARTS WITH THE TREMENDOUSLY RARE & VALUABLE PRESSING OF MFSL 45 RPM SPEED DOUBLE LP SET OF INNOCENT MAN WHICH IN PRISTINE SEALED CONDITION LIKE WE ARE OFFERING HERE SELLS FOR $300+ ALONE

+ NYLON CURTAIN + SONGS IN THE ATTIC ALL 45 RPM DOUBLE LP SETS

 3 TITLES WITH 6 PIECES OF VINYL + MFSL TURNSTILES 33 & 1/3 AUDIOPHILE PRESSING

4 TITLES & 7 SIDES OF VINYL TOTAL

High definition analog vinyl pressing for superior fidelity. The nicest thing you can do for your stylus and ears. The ultimate record – the way music was meant to be heard. Out of Print forever!!

 You should never pass up the opportunity to upgrade your collection. They're each very limited in their pressings and disappear with extraordinary quickness from the vinyl market. This causes prices to skyrocket because once they are gone, they are gone forever! Don't second-guess yourself with this chance to upgrade your collection because before you know it, the opportunity will have passed forever.

 THE MFSL 45 RPM TITLES - And of course cutting at 45 speed is the audiophile choice for the highes quality. A 45-RPM record is sonically superior to a 33 1/3 variety because of a 35 percent reduction of groove curvature compared to a 33 1/3 cut.. It means that while you can't fit as much music into a 45, the undukations of the groove that your cartridge has to track are stretched over a longer distance. For these reissues, the music was displaced onto four sides, meaning each side contains about 10 minutes of music.

This is the ultimate reissues. The only way you'll get closer to this classic music is to listen to the master tapes or have been in the studio with the artist originally during the actual session.

Billy Joel An Innocent Man Numbered Limited Edition 45rpm 180 GRAM 2LP SET

INDIVIDUALLY Numbered, Limited 180 GRAM AUDIOPHILE 45rpm LIMITED Edition! 
Half-Speed Mastered From Original Master Tapes! Pressed at RTI!

Infectious Doo-Wop, carefree Soul, harmonious Pop give testament to the music of Billy Joel's childhood.  This Mobile Fidelity reissue allows you to hear this pleasing set with fresh ears!

Another blockbuster by Joel this 1983 album became seven-times platinum and includes "Uptown Girl", "For the Longest Time", "An Innocent Man", and "Tell Her About It".

After making The Nylon Curtain, Billy Joel felt the need to exhale and get back to the carefree music of his childhood. He also met supermodel Christie Brinkley, who brought serious degrees of levity and romance to his world. In love, relaxed, and out to have fun, the singer crafted An Innocent Man, arguably the most easygoing and pleasing album of his career. Featuring four Top 40 pop singles and the same number of Top 5 Adult Contemporary hits to grace the Billboard charts, the record remains a commercial staple. 

An essential title in Mobile Fidelity’s Billy Joel catalog restoration series, An Innocent Man is mastered from the original master tapes and pressed on 180g LP at RTI.  The effervescent harmonies now possess an airiness and extension that lends to realistic tonal decay. Instruments are balanced and placed on a wider, deeper soundstage, contributing improved to improved imaging and spaciousness. Joel’s voice, too, comes across with tremendous clarity, presence, and body. These songs have never sounded so contagious.

Per usual, Joel proves a melodic jukebox. The vocalist’s grasp on structure, hooks, and delivery help make this batch of songs among his most beloved, easy to hum, and impossible to ignore. Much of the appeal resides in Joel’s understanding of the early rock and roll, doo-wop, and soul that he grew up hearing in New York, and the manners in which the popular songwriters favored simplicity over complexity, good-natured vibes over seriousness, and romantic charm over introspective sadness. 

Whether floating on a cloud on the giddy “Uptown Girl” (check out his falsetto), doubling as both the lead and background vocalist on the reminiscent-themed “The Longest Time,” or tapping gospel undercurrents on the tribute “Keeping the Faith,” Joel revels in 50s and 60s pop constructs, turning out amiable refrains and unforgettable moods. Love perfumes the air, and Joel can’t get enough, and it's a feeling he passes on to his listeners. 

As the calm before stormier periods in his life, and a timeless connection to America’s finest pop music traditions, An Innocent Man is indeed innocent—a guiltless pleasure that keeps on giving.

Features:
• Numbered, Limited Edition
• 45rpm Speed Edition
• Half-Speed Production and Mastering by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
• Specially Plated and Pressed on 180 grams of High Definition Vinyl
• Pressed at RTI
• Special Static Free - Dust Free Inner Sleeve
• Heavy Duty Protective Packaging
• Mastered from the Original Master Tapes

Selections: 
LP1 - Side One: 
1. Easy Money
2. An Innocent Man
LP1 - Side Two: 
1. The Longest Time
2. This Night
3. Tell Her About It
LP2 - Side Three:
1. Uptown Girl
2. Careless Talk
3. Christie Lee
LP2 - Side Four: 
1. Leave A Tender Moment Alone
2. Keeping the Faith

Billy Joel The Nylon Curtain Numbered Limited Edition 180 GRAM 45rpm 2 LP SET

Numbered, Limited Edition 180g 45rpm Vinyl!
Mastered From Original Master Tapes! Pressed at RTI!


The legendary singer-songwriter Billy Joel channels John Lennon on this musically ambitious and socially poignant baby boomer-themed set. Mobile Fidelity broadens the expanse of the orchestral arrangements, the sweep of melodic breadth, and the microdynamic reach.

This multi-platinum 1982 album includes "Allentown", "Laura", "Pressure", and "Goodnight Saigon".

Having triumphantly asserted himself as a take-no-mess singer-songwriter on 1980’s hard-rocking Glass Houses, Billy Joel continues to push his creative impulses on The Nylon Curtain, a fascinating song cycle that pays tribute to John Lennon and stands as the most ambitious project of his career. Enriched by sweeping orchestral arrangements and socially conscious lyrics, the 1982 set addresses unemployment, war, and realities of the Reagan era with exacting precision. Insightful and clever, the album’s Baby Boomer-themed narratives continue to resonate.

A requisite piece of Mobile Fidelity’s Billy Joel catalog restoration series, The Nylon Curtain is mastered from the original master tapes and pressed on 180g LP at RTI. The myriad nuances amidst Phil Ramone’s crisp production assume greater tonality, texture, and detail. This album is now an audiophile-caliber favorite, with transparency, clarity, and microdynamics enhancing the poignant connection between Joel’s expressiveness and the listener’s emotions. The Nylon Curtain is now an even more personal experience, a brilliant distillation of sadness, loss, hope, and anger. 

Harnessing concerns, obsessions, reflections, and feelings that consumed a majority of the Baby Boomer generation near the beginning of the Reagan Era, Joel delves into job loss (“Allentown”), wartime fallout (“Goodbye Saigon”), and, of course, romantic longing (“She’s Right on Time”). Rather than take a long-view perspective, Joel gets up and close to the issues, infusing the fare with a mix of sadness, frustration, cautious optimism, and moodiness that he wears on his sleeve. Joel’s melodies, too, ricochet with unmistakably personal sentiment, as he constructs arrangements in tribute to Lennon, whose ghost arises on pieces like “Scandinavian Skies” and “Laura.” 

Pop culture author Chuck Klosterman addresses the Beatles link and The Nylon Curtain’s timeless appeal in Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, writing: “’Laura’ and ‘Where’s the Orchestra’ really are as good as what’s on The White Album. This is because the first song says things so directly that its words shouldn’t make sense to anyone else (and yet they do), while the latter is so metaphorically vague that anybody should be able to understand what he’s implying.”

But relate and understand audiences do: The Nylon Curtain remains a pop marvel, introspective juggernaut, and now, courtesy of Mobile Fidelity, a sonic landmark. Joel’s anguish, regrets, sorrow, and worries transcend both tastes and time. Somewhat underappreciated upon its original release, the 55-minute effort is now regarded as a conceptual masterpiece. 

Features:
• Numbered, Limited Edition
• 45rpm Speed Edition
• 2LP Set
• Production and Mastering by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
• Specially Plated and Pressed on 180 grams of High Definition Vinyl
• Pressed at RTI
• Special Static Free - Dust Free Inner Sleeve
• Heavy Duty Protective Packaging
• Mastered from the Original Master Tapes

Selections: 
LP 1 - Side 1:
1. Allentown
2. Laura
LP 1 - Side 2:
1. Pressure
2. Goodnight Saigon

LP 2 - Side 3:
1. She's Right On Time
2. A Room Of Our Own
3. Surprises
LP 2 - Side 4:
1. Scandinavian Skies
2. Where's the Orchestra

Billy Joel SONGS IN THE ATTIC Numbered Limited Edition 45rpm 180 GRAM LIMITED EDITION 2 LP SET

Numbered, Limited Edition 180g 45rpm Vinyl!

Mastered From Original Master Tapes! Pressed at RTI!

This 1981 live album finds Joel adding warmth to ballads and punch and kick to rockers. Mobile Fidelity's version gives the listener a dead-center seat and wonderful sonic perspective! The album is an ideal summation of Joel’s early period material, enhanced by an accomplished band in a concert setting.

Great live albums often function as documents of a performers stinting onstage abilities, stopgaps between studio albums, introductions to a musicians earlier work, and/or opportunities for familiar material to be showcased in superior ways. Songs In the Attic serves all of these purposes and more. As Billy Joel’s first live album, it’s still his best, punctuated by dynamic renditions of favorites and deep cuts, and augmented by a tested band in sync with the pianist.

A vital component of Mobile Fidelity’s Billy Joel catalog restoration series, Songs In the Attic is mastered from the original master tapes and pressed on 180g LP at RTI. The resulting presentation effortlessly outshines that heard on all previous editions of this 1981 set. Joel’s piano possesses fuller body and lifelike resonance. His veteran groups contributions emerge with newfound clarity, dynamics, decay, and extension. Balances are supreme, and shades and colors blend, amplifying richness and presence.

On the heels of three multi-platinum albums and a commercial breakthrough, Joel released Songs In the Attic to both tide fans over until 1982?s The Nylon Curtain as well to feature material in a looser, warmer setting. The record highlights not only the singer’s consistency and knack for indelible melodies, but savvy live techniques. Upbeat tunes such as ?Everybody Loves You Now receive a more fleshed-out treatment that yields added punch and swagger, while balladic numbers like I’ve Loved These Days take on a cozy warmth akin to the feeling of putting on a sweater on a cool fall day.

Songs In the Attic also bridged the gap for listeners for whom Joel was then a new entity, as many didn?t come to his music until The Stranger. Hence, tracks like Captain Jack and The Ballad of Billy the Kid from Piano Man, get a fresh identity, particularly courtesy of a backing band that, by then, had been gigging with Joel for years. No wonder that, unlike a majority of live records, Songs In the Attic yielded two Top 40 pop hits: ?Say Goodbye to Hollywood and She’s Got a Way. No matter from what angle it’s viewed, the set stands as one of the most important and enjoyable live records ever released.

Features:

Numbered, Limited Edition

45rpm Speed Edition

2LP Set

Production and Mastering by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab

Specially Plated and Pressed on 180 grams of High Definition Vinyl

Pressed at RTI

Special Static Free - Dust Free Inner Sleeve

Heavy Duty Protective Packaging

Mastered from the Original Master Tapes

Selections:

1. Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)

2. Summer, Highland Falls

3. Streetlife Serenader

4. Los Angelenos

5. She's Got A Way

6. Everybody Loves You Now

7. Say Goodbye To Hollywood

8. Captain Jack

9. You're My Home

10. The Ballad of Billy The Kid

11. I've Loved These Days

PLUS THE 33 & 1/3 ISSUE OF THE OUT OF PRINT Billy Joel MFSL Numbered Limited Edition TURNSTILES 180 GRAM 1/2 SPEED MASTERED LP

Numbered, Limited Edition! Half-Speed Mastered From Original Master Tapes!

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Billy Joel Turnstiles on Numbered Limited Edition 180g LP from Mobile Fidelity

Joel Expands Musical Horizons on 1976 Gem Defined by Hit Songs Like "New York State of Mind," "Say Goodbye to Hollywood," "Angry Young Man"

Half-Speed Mastered from the Original Master Tapes: Brill Building Sound Courses Through With Amazing Transparency

Experience the Orchestral Sweep, Ravishing Poignancy Like Never Before

By 1976, Billy Joel had proven his merit as an auteur of California-based singer-songwriter pop-rock. On Turnstiles, the legend focuses his attention on more ambitious matters: Making an album whose scope and range dwarf that of his previous work, and shot his star into the stratosphere. Encompassing everything from urgent rock to soft pop and saloon fare, Turnstiles is a classic of major proportions.

Mobile Fidelity has gone back to the original master tapes to present Joel’s encompassing music the way it was always intended to be experienced: Intimate, detailed, expressive, warm. The records widescreen sonics are at last properly cinematic, flush with colors, textures, and atmosphere.

Progressing away from sensitivity, Joel casts his eye towards broader horizons. For him, that meant moving from the West Coast back to his native New York and embracing the citys doo-wop, Broadway, and R&B heritage. Joel’s diversity comes through in a spectacle of memorable tunes, including the infectious All You Wanna Do Is Dance, acerbic Angry Young Man, and gorgeous I’ve Loved These Days.

Still, no song better illustrates the allure  and breadth  of Turnstiles more than Say Goodbye to Hollywood, bathed in the sort of fabulous Phil Spector sound, huge drum echoes, and Brill Building orchestral sweep that Joel grew up on. Similarly, the sprawling ballad New York State of Mind clearly states the singers vision and mood. On the definitive track, Joel luxuriates in full string accompaniment and soulful saxophone playing that gives the pop standard its foundation. Not for nothing did Joel insist on keeping his touring band for the album, a decision that resulted in the firing of the records original producer.

Supported by talents such as arranger Kenny Ascher, guitarist James Herb Smith, and percussionist Mingo Lewis, Joel succeeds in wrapping his head around a rich swath of American pop music, stopping by way of New Orleans, Kansas City, Memphis, Chicago, and other cities on his way from California back to the Garden State. While lacking the fame of the subsequent The Stranger and 52nd Street, Turnstiles is in every way their equal.

Finally, the delicate nuances of Joel’s phrasing, pregnant pauses, and introspective emotion can be experienced in three-dimensional fidelity. In addition, the spectrum of the orchestras power and finesse, ravishing poignancy of the lyrics, and bittersweet qualities of the melodies bloom with unforced immediacy. The previous veiled sonic character and stultifying dryness have been corrected, presenting Joel and his crack band with illuminating precision and feeling.

Turnstiles has never sounded better and it never will.

Features:

 Numbered, Limited Edition

 Half-Speed Production and Mastering by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab

Specially Plated and Pressed on 180 grams of High Definition Vinyl

Special Static Free - Dust Free Inner Sleeve

 Heavy Duty Protective Packaging

 Mastered from the Original Master Tapes

 Gatefold jacket

Musicians:

Billy Joel, keyboard, vocals

Doug Stegmeyer, bass guitar

Liberty DeVitto, drums

Howie Emerson, electric, acoustic guitars

Russell Javors, electric, acoustic guitars

James Smith, acoustic guitar

Selections:

1. Say Goodbye to Hollywood

2. Summer, Highland Falls

3. All You Wanna Do Is Dance

4. New York State of Mind

5. James

6. Prelude/Angry Young Man

7. I've Loved These Days

8. Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)

Recorded at Ultra Sonic Studios, Homestead, New York.

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